How to Use morale in a Sentence

morale

noun
  • The team is playing well and their morale is high.
  • The President's speech boosted the morale of the troops.
  • The fan was trying to support and lift morale for the team.
    Robert F. Moss, Southern Living, 15 Sep. 2024
  • And there was enough of it to buoy our flagging morale.
    Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 4 Dec. 2023
  • The morale and the feeling of the guys from the very beginning was very, very good.
    oregonlive, 1 Apr. 2023
  • Others fretted over how low morale was on the front lines.
    Phil Wahba, Fortune, 28 Sep. 2022
  • Ariely’s lab has lost two of its biggest funders, and morale is low.
    Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 30 Sep. 2023
  • To say Sam’s morale is in the toilet would be generous.
    Ben Travers, IndieWire, 27 Oct. 2024
  • And so just recruitment alone with the morale and the way that the world is right now has been really rough.
    Luke Barr, ABC News, 27 Sep. 2023
  • Doing the climb with one of my closest friends made the time go by pretty quickly and helped keep the morale up.
    oregonlive, 19 Sep. 2022
  • Here Local 11 union for the hotel workers, says that the union hired a band for marches to boost morale.
    Helen Li, Los Angeles Times, 27 Oct. 2023
  • Why couldn’t the United States do something similar to boost the morale in psych wards?
    Danielle Paquette, Washington Post, 3 Nov. 2023
  • Many artist-run galleries of this era have since shuttered, chased out by high rents and the low morale that can come with them.
    Jennifer Wilson, New York Times, 26 Sep. 2023
  • Investing in ways to boost morale will be paramount in 2023.
    Jennifer Reimert, Forbes, 25 Jan. 2023
  • Still, morale may be Ukraine’s only hope in Pokrovsk as Russian forces zero in on the town.
    Sebastian Shukla, CNN, 11 Sep. 2024
  • But morale problems, prompted in part by new state laws, are to blame for the hiring crunch, too, Vazquez said.
    Leslie Postal, Orlando Sentinel, 9 Aug. 2022
  • The changes have taken a toll on the morale of state and local government workers.
    Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 25 July 2022
  • The team’s coach, a French Moroccan, has said the team flew a group of players’ mothers to the tournament to boost morale.
    Aida Alami, New York Times, 13 Dec. 2022
  • The opera was performed dozens of times and boosted everyone’s morale.
    Douglas Starr, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Aug. 2023
  • The morale was terrible, people were being fired, the writing was on the wall that the ship was sinking.
    Seth Abramovitch, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Dec. 2022
  • Those are qualities that will give this team a chance and keep morale steady when things aren’t clicking.
    Dan Wiederer, Chicago Tribune, 13 Sep. 2022
  • Musk has attempted to boost morale with the promise of stock grants (if workers can prove their worth in a memo).
    Chris Morris, Fortune, 30 Sep. 2024
  • More than four-fifths of the men and women surveyed reported low morale.
    Evan Osnos, The New Yorker, 18 July 2022
  • The damage in Crimea, which Ukraine wants to win back after eight years in Russian hands, boosted morale in Kyiv.
    Harold Maass, The Week, 10 Aug. 2022
  • This led to a purge of leaders, a host of morale issues, and less regulation.
    Jasper Craven, The New Republic, 29 Aug. 2022
  • Doing so will help both Ukraine’s war efforts and morale in Ukraine’s allies.
    Liana Fix, Foreign Affairs, 28 Nov. 2023
  • Since then, his daily video briefing to the nation has also helped boost morale.
    Rachel Donadio, Vogue, 26 July 2022
  • But morale, an area in which Ukrainian fighters held an edge for much of the war, is becoming more of a challenge.
    Andrew E. Kramer Mauricio Lima, New York Times, 3 Apr. 2023
  • Changing your living space will boost your morale and motivate you to take more leisure time.
    Eugenia Last, The Mercury News, 4 Apr. 2024
  • Their mission was to sort through a three-year backlog of mail — 17 million letters in all — yet to be delivered to American soldiers overseas, to restore morale on the front lines.
    Etan Vlessing, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Oct. 2024

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